THE ODD BIRD The Not-so-Scientific Journal of Nonverbal Learning Disability

Recently, I attended Podcamp Boston, a two-day unconference about podcasting, blogging and other social media platforms that I’ll be using for THE ODD BIRD/NLD Documentary Project. Unconferences are very popular within social media circles these days, because they allow media-makers to come together

Finally, some new research on nonverbal learning disability: In the April 26, 2011 issue of the Journal of Child Neurology, a new study conducted at Michigan State University (USA) reports that brain cysts have been detected in a significant number of study participants with NLD.  These results came

It’s been quiet here at THE ODD BIRD camp without a blog post in sight. I’ve been less an eagle than a chicken these days, inwardly doubting whether a public outing on the Internet instead of using a pen name was the right action to take. Some NLD-ers I’ve spoken with lately tell me they’re [...]

  I’m in a funny kind of limbo lately that leaves me wondering whether the next job I go after or the next friendship I attempt to make will be thwarted by all of this social media exposure. Launching and maintaining this blog have been risky acts (although nowhere near the scale of risk other [...]

  My mother is selling her house and moving. Because I live with her, this means that I’m moving too. She’s going to California. I’m going some place else. I’m happy—her house has been an albatross around her neck since my father died, with the maladies beginning in the driveway four days after we b

  I’ve been enjoying blogging for about six months now, despite reading about disillusioned bloggers packing up and leaving the blogosphere. With regular practice, I’m beginning to organize my ideas and write a little faster, and I consider this effort to be a good, cognitive work-out for my brain.

  You and I have a lot to learn from the life of Harvey Pekar. He was an odd bird for sure and a very  talented one. Pekar died at his home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio (USA) in July at the age of 70. If you’ve not heard of him, he was a comic book [...]